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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 08:28:13 PST
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> I have a swimming pool object with a perturbed surface (geometric or
> mapped) and the camera is under the surface. I am viewing the corner of
> the pool's bottom and I want to create animated caustic reflections and
> those characteristic light patterns you see on sea beds and swimming
> pools floors... how do I do it?
>
> What sort of surface attributes should the water have, how should I model
> it, and do I need to set up special light attributes?
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

Sounds like a job for the underwater texture. Use it as an image map and give
it a velocity.


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